_JOB OBSERVES, THAT THE WICKED SOMETIMES LIVE HAPPILY, AND SOMETIMES THEIR DESTRUCTION IS MANIFEST, YET, THOUGH SOME LEAD A PROSPEROUS, AND OTHERS AN AFFLICTED LIFE, ALL ARE CUT OFF ALIKE BY DEATH: WHENCE IT CLEARLY FOLLOWS, THAT THE WICKED ARE RESERVED TO A DAY OF WRATH._ _Before Christ 1645._ _J... [ Continue Reading ]
AND LET THIS BE YOUR CONSOLATIONS— _And let this be the consolation you administer._ Heath. Schultens renders it, _And this shall be for your consolations._ "What I have to say, is in return for these wonderful consolations that you bring me;" understanding the passage ironically, which very well ag... [ Continue Reading ]
AND IF IT WERE SO— _But, if it is not so, what cause is there why I should be troubled in mind?_ Houbigant.... [ Continue Reading ]
MARK ME, AND BE ADMONISHED, &C.— The coldest reader cannot be insensible of the beauties of the poetry in this speech of Job. We will not, therefore, attempt to point them out, but attend to the thread of reasoning. As Job well knew that the account he was about to give of the prosperity of wicked m... [ Continue Reading ]
LO, THEIR GOOD IS NOT IN THEIR HAND— After the foregoing elegant description of the prosperity of some wicked men, Job proceeds, on the other hand, to confess what was likewise apparent in the ways of Providence, that some of them were as remarkably distinguished by their wretchedness, being exposed... [ Continue Reading ]
BEHOLD, I KNOW YOUR THOUGHTS— By the _day of destruction,_ and _the day of wrath,_ mentioned in the 30th verse, I believe it will appear, from the context, can be meant no other than the future day of judgment; which, to the wicked and ungodly, is every where represented in Scripture as a day of wra... [ Continue Reading ]